by Global Development Institute | Nov 6, 2025 | Events, Policy
By Isis Barei-Guyot, Tom Gillespie and Smith Ouma On 4 November 2025 Zohran Mamdani was elected Mayor of New York City. The 34-year-old Democratic Socialist campaigned on the issue of urban affordability and took on the city’s political and real estate establishment...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
This episode comes from the African Cities Research Consortium podcast. Diana Mitlin talks to Ezana Haddis Weldeghebrael about her new paper on how reform coalitions can contribute to inclusive equitable urban change in the global South, her experiences of working...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 19, 2023 | Comment
The project We are seeking an ECR (working on their PhD or having recently been awarded a PhD) to work on an exciting research pilot. Our project aims at generating a step-change in our understanding of societal responses and resilience to future, unprecedented...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
Academics from the Global Development Institute are helping to convene a number of panels at the annual Development Studies Association conference taking place on 28–30 June 2023. The theme of the conference is Crisis in the Anthropocene: Rethinking connection and...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
This episode comes from the African Cities Research Consortium podcast. “It’s not our data as SDI, it’s not ACRC data, it’s not their data. It’s the community’s data. So you have to have that understanding that, at the end of the day, it has to benefit the community.”...
